Jordan Seavey

Jordan's most recent play, The Seven Year Disappear, premiered at The New Group in March 2024, directed by Scott Elliott and starring Cynthia Nixon and Taylor Trensch. 

His other plays include Homos, or Everyone in America (New York Times Critic’s Pick; named one of New York Magazine’s 10 Best Theater Events of 2016 and The Advocate’s Top 10 New York Theater of 2016), November 4th 2008, Wight, The Funny Pain, The Truth Will Out, Children at Play, 6969 and This is a Newspaper.  Since 2003 he’s co-created more than fifteen new plays with theater company CollaborationTown, including Candy (a commission from LCT3 / Lincoln Center), the all-ages puppet musical Riddle of the Trilobites (as residents of New Victory Theater's LabWorks), Family Play (1979 to Present) (named one of The Advocate’s 10 Best LGBT Plays of 2014), and The Momentum (2012 GLAAD National Media Award nomination).  He is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, and an alum of The Public Theater's Emerging Writer’s Group and the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab.  His work has been developed with Lincoln Center Theater, New York Theater Workshop, The Public Theater, Labyrinth Theater Company, Roundabout Theater Company, The Old Vic (London), Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, 59E59 Theaters, The Flea Theater, The New Ohio Theater, Lark Play Development Center, SPACE at Ryder Farm, The Orchard Project, The MacDowell Colony, Edward F. Albee Foundation and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

He is represented in the US by Rachel Viola at UTA.